Monday, March 30, 2015

(PORTLAND, OR) -- Mary Jensen, who has worked in the
Bonneville Power Administration General Counsel’s office since 2002, has been
named its general counsel. She takes over after managing the office for a year
as acting general counsel.

“Mary stepped in and helped BPA work through a number of
complex legal matters while acting as general counsel for the past year,” said
BPA Administrator Elliot Mainzer. “She is first the BPA general counsel who
reports directly to the administrator. I look forward to continuing to work
with her to further enhance BPA’s legal risk management and compliance.”

While serving as acting general counsel, Jensen guided BPA’s
Office of General Counsel through a major reorganization, instituted a new
office policy on legal advice, and collaborated with the Department of Energy
general counsel in creating national guidelines for power marketing
administrations in states where marijuana sales are lawful under state
statutes. She also instituted new processes that enable faster response times
to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act.

“The Bonneville Power Administration serves an incredibly
important purpose in the Northwest,” Jensen said. “I am honored to serve as its
general counsel and lead the legal staff that supports our efforts to keep our
assets delivering value to the region.”

Jensen has specialized in legal issues involving the
provision of transmission service at Bonneville and was promoted to manage that
legal section in 2008. Before joining BPA in 2002, she worked at the U.S.
Office of the Solicitor in Phoenix, Ariz., advising the Bureau of Indian
Affairs regarding operations of its federally-owned electric utilities that
provide service in Arizona.

Preceding her federal service, she worked as a prosecutor in
Tucson, Ariz., handling felony cases including vehicular offenses, elder abuse
and homicide. Jensen is a graduate of the University of Arizona College of Law.
Her son is a third-generation journeyman lineman, who lives in Missouri with
his wife and their five children.

The Office of General Counsel provides legal expertise that
supports BPA programs through legal advice and representation, including but
not limited to the general areas of transmission, natural resources, power,
lands, federal resources and treaties, generation and finance, personnel, and
ratemaking.

This Sunday morning at 2 AM we begin
Daylight Saving Time. Captain Rick Mack with Riverside Fire Authority
says when you set the time on your clocks ahead one hour, it’s a good
time to replace the batteries in your home or business smoke detectors.
Mack says if you have a working smoke detector in your home, it cuts
your chance of dying in a fire in half. He also says it’s recommended by
industry officials that you should replace your smoke detectors if they
are more than 10 years old.

www.politico.comEPA's upcoming
climate rule for existing power plants has created a big divide on who
gets the credit for green electricity - the state that produces it or
the state that uses it? The debate has major stakes for populous,
electricity-hungry states like California, already a major buyer of
renewable and fossil-fuel power produced elsewhere. But it's just as
important for states like Wyoming, which is both the nation's largest
coal producer and its 12th-largest generator of wind power.

About Me

Joel Myer works at an electrical utility in Washington State.
Prior to his current employment, he worked for nine years at the City of Shelton as Special Projects Coordinator.
In 1992, Joel served a three-month term as an appointed Mason County Commissioner. As far as it is known, he still holds the record for the shortest term for a county commissioner in Washington State.
From 1991 through 1992 Joel worked with Washington State University Cooperative Extension, where he conducted an extensive study of the special forest products industry and its economic value to the Pacific Northwest.
From 1980 to 1991 he was News Director at KMAS Radio in Shelton.
Joel is a 1991 graduate of the Evergreen State College, where his focus of study was economics.
Joel Myer is one of the 2018 award winners, Foundation for Water & Energy Education Haiku Contest.
He has been teaching himself to play the ukulele (with limited success) since 2003.